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A woman has been arrested in Argentina for allegedly making a fake baby bump out of 15 cannabis bricks.

Officers had searched the unnamed woman after finding two bricks of marijuana in a black bag belonging to her male companion during a long distance coach journey.

They then discovered that her ‘bump’ was actually four kilos of cannabis, packed in bricks and held together with a starch-based paste.

The pair were arrested at a police checkpoint in an area known as Valle de Uco, near Mendoza, which is close to Argentina’s border with Chile.

It is thought they had been heading to the Patagonian city of Santa Oliva.

She was stopped during a long-distance coach journey (Picture: Gendarmeria Nacional/ Twitter)

The fake bump weighed more than four kilos (Picture: Gendarmeria Nacional/ Twitter)

Argentina’s Minister for Security Patricia Bullrich tweeted photos of the arrest and wrote: ‘She made a belly out of paste, hid 15 cannabis bricks inside it and faked a pregnancy before trying to take it form Mendoza to Santa Cruz.

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‘At a police control the pretend mum-to-be and her accomplice were arrested. This is how she tried to smuggle the drugs.’

A police spokesperson confirmed the bust, adding: ‘Officers discovered a passenger was carrying two cannabis bricks in a black bag. A young woman was beside him who appeared to be pregnant.

‘She was asked to leave the vehicle and it was confirmed she was also carrying drugs and no baby inside of her.’

Four years ago, a woman was stopped at El Dorado airport, in Bogota, Colombia, for having 1.5 kilos of liquid cocaine inside her breasts.

The couple were both arrested (Picture: Gendarmeria Nacional/ Twitter)

The drugs had been placed in two tied up latex gloves and ‘implanted’ inside of her.

She had been ordered to carry it to Barcelona.

The same airport also saw a Canadian woman try to board flight with two kilos of cocaine stuffed inside a latex false belly in 2013.